airspeedswift

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to random

I once had a user who refused to let us install a new version of our app on their machine, saying “I don’t want a new version, I want you to fix the version I have”.

airspeedswift, 1 month ago to random

Y’all are putting way too much inside didSet.

I get how temptingly convenient it is but it’s setting things up for future sadness.

Also no taking all that logic and stuffing it in a single method you call from didSet. You’re not fooling anyone.

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

Loads of great #swift content for you this week, starting with @dgregor79 and me taking you through the latest improvements in What’s new in Swift

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10164

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to random

A seasonal question: what candy that is available globally has the worst-tasting American version?

My vote is for KitKat.

Rules: this is for things that are supposed to be the same thing in the US and globally. This isn’t related to naming i.e. smarties in the US are a different thing to in the UK. Milky Way in the US should be compared to a Mars Bar. Also “kinda the same thing” doesn’t count i.e. you can’t say Malteasers/Whoppers they’re different (otherwise that would be the runaway winner).

airspeedswift, 2 months ago to random

Since people are still talking about Dune 2, here’s my contribution, which is that I was disappointed they left out 1/ the part about how Salusa Secundus and Arrakis were similarly harsh and 2/ basically anything about mentats

airspeedswift, 11 months ago to random

I am begging you to stop using forEach

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to swift

The team that works on the interop between #Swift and C++ are hiring! Come help people move to a safer friendlier future.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200531386/compiler-frontend-engineer?team=SFTWR

airspeedswift, 5 months ago to random

Shaved off my beard for the Xmas break, over the objections of the 11yo who says it makes me look “weird and wrong”

airspeedswift, 10 months ago to random

UK coffee seems to be getting worse. Just an ocean of watery americanos.

airspeedswift, 8 months ago to random

The boy wanted to know what a SCART cable looked like. I checked my box of emotional support cables and was sorry to discover it doesn’t contain one.

He said a picture would do but it really won’t. You have to hold one, to try twisting it and feel the resistance and hear the crinkling of the inner wires, to stare at the giant plug and poke its sharp connector teeth, to truly understand it.

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

In What's new in Swift I mention the performance improvements from the new Swift implementation of Foundation. Performance came up a lot when we first put the open source package live, but wasn't easy to talk about until the new OS betas were available.

One common trope at the time was “it isn't faster than using Objective-C, this is just to reduce Swift bridging costs” and while that's true, it's important to note Swift is just plain faster, as seen even when calling into it from ObjC.

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to random

I am drawing the line at learning what the low temperatures mean when they're in farenheit

airspeedswift, 6 months ago to random

Whole Foods we need to talk about which continent you think turkeys come from

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to random

Mmm hmmm mmm hmm

airspeedswift, 4 months ago to swift

Did you know python for loops can have an else clause? It's code that only runs if the loop terminates naturally without a break.

#Swift doesn't have this exact feature, but you can get the same result with a labelled continue.

A screenshot of some Swift code: outer: for n in 2..<10 { for x in 2..

airspeedswift, 1 year ago to random

If you're a frequent visitor, making forums.swift.org a Dock app in Sonoma works great.

airspeedswift, 1 month ago to random

wait wait wait wait wait

wait

I am only now realizing the true horror, how has it taken me this long.

(our UK SNES looked like the top one)

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to random

Oil of EULA

airspeedswift, 23 days ago to random

// Only access this property via the queue

Narrator: but it was not only accessed via the queue

airspeedswift, 6 months ago to random

ICYMI, in Xcode 15, if you highlight part of a line and hit cmd-/, it comments just that part of the line out with /* */

airspeedswift, 7 months ago to random

There's this increasing tendency to talk about memory safety as if, because it's the most pressing problem right now, solving it means you've won the battle. But that's not the end goal… it's the start. Literally the least you can do.

airspeedswift, 3 months ago to random

How? That needs to be like a kilo of broccoli.

airspeedswift, 8 months ago to random

Just idly logged on to animal crossing after a year, to find the 11yo has accessed my account and plundered all my stuff.

airspeedswift, 2 months ago to swift

Experimental support for generic noncopyable types in the #swift standard library is now available in the nightly toolchain.

Here's a simple demonstration of adoption of this feature on the Swift Playdate example project. Switching the Sprite type from an enum+class box to a simpler non-copyable struct drops binary size from 7k to 6k on the SwiftBreak game.

https://github.com/apple/swift-playdate-examples/pull/13

airspeedswift, 2 months ago to random

I guess I could have posted that on my blog, except the dust is pretty caked on at this point, needs scraping off.